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Is Obama weak against Putin?
CNN ^ | March 28, 2014 | By Andrew C. Kuchins

Posted on 03/29/2014 1:07:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

(CNN) -- I recall being an undergraduate in Russian Studies at Amherst College when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. I was flabbergasted when then-President Carter initially expressed surprise that Leonid Brezhnev and his cronies decided to undertake that ill-fated adventure. Just the little I knew of Soviet history at that time led me to conclude that one should never be naïve about Russia. Wisely, the Carter administration soon implemented a wide-ranging and powerful set of sanctions against the USSR.

By comparison, Barack Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun with a series of empty threats and "too little, too late" punitive measures against Putin's Russia.

On February 28, President Obama warned Russia not to take military action against Crimea, and if he did so, serious "costs" would be imposed. A few weeks later, Crimea was annexed to Russia and virtually no serious "costs" have been incurred from U.S. sanctions.

Now Obama and our European allies have virtually conceded Crimea, but again warn Putin that we really mean it this time, that if you take military action in Ukraine outside Crimea, you will be really sorry!

I think the only thing that has surprised Putin is how weak Obama's response has been. The administration was not prepared for the contingency that Putin would act so brazenly.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: andrewckuchins; andrewkuchins; cnn; obama; putin; rtussia; russia; ukraine
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To: Sacajaweau
Sometime in the past:


Obama: Mr. President, after the election, I will have more flexibility...

Medvedev: Mr. President, I see. I will make sure to transmit this information to Vladimir Vladimorovich and see that he gets it.

21 posted on 03/29/2014 1:40:48 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Jim Robinson
Nahhh. Obama positively radiates strength, determination and a steely resolve...


22 posted on 03/29/2014 1:43:22 PM PDT by null and void ( Everything evil in the world may not be Islamic but everything Islamic is evil.)
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To: Jim Robinson
along for the ride
23 posted on 03/29/2014 1:46:33 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: Jim Robinson

Does a fat dog fart? Does a bear sh*t in the woods? Is the Pope Catholic? (wait a minute....that one might not be so good)


24 posted on 03/29/2014 1:53:57 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Jim Robinson

I wonder how much the two are in cahoots with each other.


25 posted on 03/29/2014 2:00:43 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Jim Robinson
Is Obama weak against Putin?

Does Elmer Fudd have trouble with the letter 'R'?

26 posted on 03/29/2014 2:01:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: The KG9 Kid

I wonder what city the Chargers will move to.


27 posted on 03/29/2014 2:02:59 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Jim Robinson

He’s weak against a wet paper bag....


28 posted on 03/29/2014 2:13:09 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Jim Robinson

Bear, Catholic, Pope, woods


29 posted on 03/29/2014 2:14:27 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Operating out of weakness? Imagine if he was working from a position of strength!)
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To: smokingfrog

“jyou dahnt vahnt to undo your belt. Jyou miawt have a flabalanche “.

“listen to me now and hear me later”


30 posted on 03/29/2014 2:15:54 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Jim Robinson

Jimmy Carter looks like Atillla the Hun and Neville Chamberlain looks like Hannibal compared to dear leader.


31 posted on 03/29/2014 2:33:13 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Guns SAVE Lives! www.VCDL.org)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Dear leader would be way over his head in a kiddie pool.


32 posted on 03/29/2014 2:34:25 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Guns SAVE Lives! www.VCDL.org)
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To: Jim Robinson

I believe Zer0 sees America’s military as a diversion of money from his Marxist agenda. Thus, a foreign policy is a side show. Zer0 is the ultimate lame-suck. He can do nothing and things are going where he wants. Besides, his Muslim friends are doing his bidding as America and the West are sitting ducks to the evil they represent.


33 posted on 03/29/2014 2:36:09 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Obama keeps drawing these yellow lines in the snow.


34 posted on 03/29/2014 2:36:13 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: 353FMG

Pretty much my opinion as well.


35 posted on 03/29/2014 2:51:17 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Jim Robinson

36 posted on 03/29/2014 3:02:02 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Is Obama weak against Putin? Yes, and by design. The goal is to punish America, even if that takes the form of making himself look like a gelding.

No humiliation is too great IF, in the end, America is brought low. Remember, his mentors were Marxists. They labor to destroy Christianity and capitalism.


37 posted on 03/29/2014 3:03:50 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

——The goal is to punish America——

I would argue to the contrary.

Obama is a pacifist, an antiwar scion of the 60’s. That was the age of the great victory, the war in Vietnam was damned and ended. There shall be no more war. There shall be peace through diplomacy, through accommodation, through compromise. There can be no war because war is abolished, ended for all time.

That is what they believe and think. The destruction of American strength is just collateral damage to the pacifist notions.


38 posted on 03/29/2014 3:09:41 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: tbpiper; library user
Does a fat dog fart? Does a bear sh*t in the woods?

I thank you for not spelling out the vulgarity, unlike what library user did. FR does have its standards, you know, and they are good ones.

And no, "fart" is not considered a vulgarity, at least to me.

39 posted on 03/29/2014 3:20:09 PM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun

Looks like a great idea for a tagline. LOL!!

Thanks JimRob!


40 posted on 03/29/2014 3:22:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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